Michael C. Steinlauf is Professor of History Emeritus at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. Steinlauf has taught Jewish history, theatre and culture in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations and is the author of numerous studies of Jewish culture in prewar Poland. He was one of the founders of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
[1] His work has been translated into Polish, Hebrew, German and Italian.
Publications
"Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage." American Jewish History, July 31, 2005
Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture in Poland and Its Afterlife. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (16), Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. ISBN1-874774-74-9. 628 pages
"Poland." In: David S. Wyman, Charles H. Rosenzveig. The World Reacts to the Holocaust. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN0-8018-4969-1. Between pages 81 and 155
"Beyond the evil empire: Freedom to remember or freedom to forget?" Sol Feinstone, 1991
This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History (Academic Studies Press) 2022. 188 pages.